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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Thing is, though, they hurt themselves (and their authors) by limiting the distribution to Amazon only. Other publishers do it too, Hachette being another one of the worst. If those ebooks had already been available at several other outlets, this wouldn't have had near the impact. They brought it on themselves. What caused a big part of the hue and cry amongst ebook consumers was that the books were not available anywhere at all after the Amazon shenanigans.
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Many of the ebook titles that became entirely unavailable when Amazon yanked them is because, for the most part, those titles were titles for which macmillan refused to produce an ebook. Amazon scanned it themselves, with Macmillan's permission.
To verify this, I think you'll find (when you check again), that most of the "exclusive" titles were in fact Topaz-format ebooks: a sure sign that Amazon themselves scanned and OCR'd the title.